[ SECRET POST #3516 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3516 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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The entire rest of this post is either spoilers or have content warnings.





02. [SPOILERS for Over the Hills and Far Away]



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03. [SPOILERS for Pokemon Sun and Moon]



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04. [SPOILERS for Inside]



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05. [SPOILERS for The Girl With All The Gifts]



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06. [SPOILERS for Steven Universe]
[WARNING for suicide]



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07. [WARNING for non-con]



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08. [WARNING for incest]




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09. [WARNING for suicide]












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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think the number of movies that have a "disabled people will always overcome their disabilities and should always fight to live no matter how awful their life is (and will forever be)" far outnumber the ones that say "sometimes disabled people make the extremely hard decision to end their lives because not everyone wants to live the rest of their life disable or in constant pain".

I think portraying both aspects of disabilities are important.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this. While it's true that some movies portray serious disability as "worse than death", and some disabled people as dying along the way, I think there's probably way more media that portrays living with disability with the more heroic approach. Not that that isn't kind of obnoxious, too, but are we really short of media that portray people who live with disability more positively?

I think we just need more media that portrays disabled people as normal. Not heroic, not suicidal, not brave, just normal, where it's more or less incidental that they are disabled.

[sarillia]

I don't feel like those inspirational portrayals are all that positive. Mostly it feels like a lot of pressure to never ever let anything stop you no matter what and you know, I'm just tired and I don't want to be exceptional. Those movies kind of feel like they're throwing other disabled people under the bus who don't want to keep pushing and pushing all the time.

There's a moment I love in the movie Wait Until Dark where a recently blinded woman is being pressured by her husband to push herself harder to practice more of the new skills she needs and she snaps "do I have to be the world's champion blind lady?"

[crossy_woad]

Yeah, that's a good point

[(Anonymous)]

As much as I do not condone anyone implying disabled people should kill themselves, I really, really hate people taking "You need to be super Pollyanna about everything all the time so I don't have to feel uncomfortable because you're sad" or "You need to be a hero so I can brag about how heroic you are to everyone" attitude.

[(Anonymous)]

It's kind of sad when you think about it, but the last physically disabled character featured in a blockbuster movie who wasn't either "an inspiration to us all," a warning not to take life for granted, or magic, was probably Lieutenant Dan.

[(Anonymous)]

Roland from Saved!, maybe?

[(Anonymous)]

Hermann Gottlieb from Pacific Rim. Not saying there shouldn't be more like him, but I liked his portrayal very much: he's clearly physically disabled in some way, it's never elaborated on, it makes sense and meshes with his characterisation, and while it's not presented as a major motivator, it's a minor plot point in that he's physically incapable of keeping up with his colleague as they try to outrun a kaiju.